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Ephemeris: 03/14/2025 – Viewing today’s eclipse from the Moon

March 14, 2025

This is Ephemeris for Pi Day, Friday, March 14th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 51 minutes, setting at 7:48, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:54. The Moon, at full today, will rise at 8:27 this evening.

I hope you had a good look at the eclipse this morning I don’t know if it was clear or cloudy because I’m recording this last Sunday night. One entity got a cloudless shot at seeing the eclipse without any obstructions. That was the Blue Ghost lander on Mare Crisium on the Moon. However, it was on the Moon so it was seeing a total eclipse of the Sun. I’ll be really interested to see the photographs coming back from that. There was a satellite and one lander, the Surveyor 3 Lander on the Moon that took pictures of the Earth during the solar eclipse. Of course, we saw a lunar eclipse. It just saw a ring of light around the Earth where the Sun’s light was being bent through the Earth’s atmosphere into it’s shadow to dully illuminate the Moon.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Sorry, I couldn’t spend any time on the program to celebrate Pi day, so I’ll give it a token appreciation here:

Have a slice of Pi Day pie on 3.14

Update

Image of a total lunar eclipse from the Moon’s surface captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on March 14, 2025. The image shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth.
Firefly Aerospace.
I hope Blue Ghost can improve on this in resolution and color. Credit: NASA.
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